The Life and Times of Seargent Smith PrentissJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1884 - 442 páginas |
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... Mississippi we know not , as he has left no record of his emotions . Whether like Bilboa , when he looked from the mountain range into the newly - discovered Pacific Ocean , his mind was filled with vast conceptions of the future or not ...
... Mississippi we know not , as he has left no record of his emotions . Whether like Bilboa , when he looked from the mountain range into the newly - discovered Pacific Ocean , his mind was filled with vast conceptions of the future or not ...
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... Mississippi , and from that fact , -as will be seen hereafter , -long after his body had mouldered into dust , the halo of his associa- tion threw a protecting ægis over it and saved it from desecra- tion . In this humble log cabin he ...
... Mississippi , and from that fact , -as will be seen hereafter , -long after his body had mouldered into dust , the halo of his associa- tion threw a protecting ægis over it and saved it from desecra- tion . In this humble log cabin he ...
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... Mississippi , in consequence of his physical infirmity and sensitiveness on account of it , shrunk from the effect of seeking ladies ' society . True , his handsome face and fascinating manners could have won his way , but he did not ...
... Mississippi , in consequence of his physical infirmity and sensitiveness on account of it , shrunk from the effect of seeking ladies ' society . True , his handsome face and fascinating manners could have won his way , but he did not ...
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... Mississippi River , the first being on the hills , the latter on the bottom . Prentiss made the trip down to the place on horseback - a distance of one hundred miles - in about two days ; he found the vacancy had been filled ere his ...
... Mississippi River , the first being on the hills , the latter on the bottom . Prentiss made the trip down to the place on horseback - a distance of one hundred miles - in about two days ; he found the vacancy had been filled ere his ...
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... Mississippi , from which Colonel J. F. H. Claiborne has there written his " Mississippi as a State and Territory . " The " Dunbarton " school - house was about three - quarters of a mile from the dwelling , on the spot a short distance ...
... Mississippi , from which Colonel J. F. H. Claiborne has there written his " Mississippi as a State and Territory . " The " Dunbarton " school - house was about three - quarters of a mile from the dwelling , on the spot a short distance ...
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